On 2021/02/24 05:44, James Knott wrote:
On 2021-02-24 12:27 a.m., Doug McGarrett wrote:
Using Thunderbird for email. Is the password it requires a function of Thunderbird
Password? on Tbird? Think I saw it once when I setup Tbird.
It's your email provider that requires it. You can tell Thunderbird to remember the password. Of course, your dog will have to do that too. ;-)
I use fetchmail to download from my ISP, that uses sendmail to deliver it to my local 'account' where it is sorted into many email folders that are served to T-bird via IMAP. Fetchmail does use a password to d/l from the ISP, but that's in a private config file. Password on my imap is my login password -- but only had to type that in once when I setup the imap account in Tbird and it keeps it after that. Used to use imaps, but to a local server, what's the point? But I can use Tbird on any local machine or just use 'Mail' or any mbox-compatible mail reader that reads from local files when on the server, so no pw there either. Having email as text files is invaluable in searching through emails as I have emails going back to 1995.